Property market
The five-year median is £590,000 from 7 recorded sales in E4 8SS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Waltham Forest is £522,743 in June 2026, up 2.5% year on year.
E4 8SS
Larkswood · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Ward
- Larkswood
- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Walthamstow
- Postcode district
- E4
- Postcode sector
- E4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- E4 8SS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- E
- Postcode district
- E4
- Postcode sector
- E4 8
- Latitude
- 51.601828
- Longitude
- -0.014894
- British National Grid easting
- 537,577
- British National Grid northing
- 191,087
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- Larkswood · E05013894
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Walthamstow · E14001563
- Output area
- E00021852
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 008B · E01004344
- Middle layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 008 · E02000902
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore E4
Property
45 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 40, Grove Park Avenue, London, E4 8SS | 13 February 2026 | £607,500 |
| 18, Grove Park Avenue, London, E4 8SS | 14 May 2025 | £720,000 |
| 38, Grove Park Avenue, London, E4 8SS | 24 March 2025 | £540,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 169
- Primary
- 98
- Secondary
- 26
- 364 m
South Chingford Foundation School
Academy sponsor led
- 416 m
Chapel End Junior Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 436 m
Chapel End Infant School and Early Years Centre
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,379
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,453
- Anti social behaviour 822
- Vehicle crime 684
- Other theft 456
- Drugs 370
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 87
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- E4 8 residents
- 16,351
45 female, 42 male
Age bands in E4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.6%
3,349 residents
1,975 residents
4,983 residents
4,238 residents
2,292 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider E4 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
71
within 5 km
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
801 m
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
1.0 km
THE MICROFACULTY
107-109 CHINGFORD MOUNT ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8LT
ODS code F86638
1.2 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
HANDSWORTH AVENUE, HIGHAMS PARK, LONDON, E4 9PD
ODS code F86004
1.3 km
CLAREMONT MEDICAL CENTRE
27 CLAREMONT ROAD, LONDON, E17 5RJ
ODS code F86708
1.5 km
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
1.6 km
HIGHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
258-260 HIGHAM HILL ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5RQ
ODS code F86679
1.6 km
CHINGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
109 YORK ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8LF
ODS code Y01291
1.7 km
DR DHITAL PRACTICE
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86086
1.8 km
WALTHAM FOREST COMM & FAM HTH SERV LTD
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86644
1.8 km
SINNOTT MEDICAL CENTRE
8 ST ANDREW'S ROAD, WALTHAMWSTOW, LONDON, E17 6BD
ODS code Y01839
1.8 km
CHURCHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CHURCHILL TERRACE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8DG
ODS code F86627
1.8 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
2.1 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
2.1 km
THE OLD CHURCH SURGERY
SILVERTHORN CENTRE, 2 FRIARS CLOSE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 6UN
ODS code F86616
2.2 km
QUEENS ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48 QUEENS ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 8PX
ODS code F86030
2.5 km
GROVE SURGERY
103-105 GROVE ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9BU
ODS code F86062
2.5 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
2.5 km
THE ECCLESBOURNE PRACTICE
ECCLESBOURNE, 1 WARWICK TERRACE, LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, LONDON, E17 9DP
ODS code F86018
2.5 km
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 71 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Walthamstow Stadium
BCT · Highams Park
- 0.1 miles
Crooked Billet / Walthamstow Avenue
BCT · Higham Hill
- 0.1 miles
Walthamstow Stadium
BCT · Highams Park
- 0.1 miles
Waltham Park Way
BCT · Highams Park
- 0.2 miles
Waltham Park Way
BCT · Highams Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 008B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,195 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 7
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
169 open schools are in scope, including 98 primary and 26 secondary schools. South Chingford Foundation School is the nearest published school at 364 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,379 published events cover 12 months, averaging 448.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,453 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.